Hi there. I don't check these forums often, so please contact me directly using one of the methods on my author portal if you have questions. I'll try to clear some things up though.


About QuickChatlink and LinkBot: Let me emphasize strongly that QuickChatlink and LinkBot are entirely separate addons, they do not require LinksList and LinksList does not require them. There's a reason they're not mentioned in LinksList's description: the three do not interact at all. The only way they're even remotely related is that they share the same libraries, but the same could be said of any three Ace addons, for example.

Basically, all you need to know is what's already explained in the first paragraph of the description. Addons of the naming format "LinksList_<source>" belong to LinksList. Nothing else requires LinksList, and LinksList does not need information from any other addons. Please, stop suggesting that QuickChatlink and LinkBot are necessary or required. They were only together in LootLink because LootLink maintained its own database. We have completely separate, isolated libraries which serve that purpose now -- libraries which, by definition, are shared between unrelated client addons.



About the Plugins and Libraries: I see a lot of talk of "having to download" all of the plugins to "make LinksList work". This just isn't true. The plugins don't rely on each other. That's why they're plugins. You can pick and choose what functionality you want, and disable the rest to save resources. That's the entire idea behind the system.

As for the libraries, however, I screwed up on the initial release by having the link database libraries reside on the top level of the addons folder instead of making them embeddable. Doing it the way I did causes all manner of version overlapping issues. I have since fixed that, and you'll find that the only things on the top level now are LinksList itself and a small saved-variables stub that can be safely overwritten over and over again and never break.

Admittedly, I neglected to consider the fact that most people who download LinksList will want all of the plugins to start with. Forcing you to download a bunch of separate files, especially with the overlapping problem that used to exist, was certainly not user friendly. I will start posting compilations of LinksList's plugins so that you can get them all in one download if you want to. I'll also post similar compilations for QuickChatlink and LinkBot, but I will not be combining them. They are three separate addons for a reason.


@Nonak: That's not possible for tradeskills, unfortunately.


About Item Suffixes: Support for these has been dropped, as they are very easy for people to fake, almost impossible to verify, quite annoying to write code around, and also just not very useful at all. The only possible use that was brought to my attention was for seeing the difference in Auctioneer, et al pricing between, say, "of the Eagle" and "of the Boar". However, logically, Auctioneer must store these values itself anyway, so it would be silly to duplicate the behaviour outside of the only addon that's going to use it.


About Imported Data from LootLink: The library responsible for storing item links imports from LootLink when both addons are loaded at the same time. You can safely disable LootLink after a single login with both loaded. As for the lack of a huge saved variable .lua file, one of the major advantages to the new database formats I've implemented is that they only store errata. Any data which is the same as what's in the default database file (which comes with the library) is not stored. This decreases login/logout times drastically, and uses less memory. All of your item data was imported, it's just that most of it was the same as the default values and therefore doesn't need to be stored as errata.


@Marthisdil: The default database is very comprehensive, so you're unlikely to find new items until a patch lands. The difference in number you're seeing is because LootLink counts item suffixes as unique items. There are really only about 22,400 items in the game. You can monitor links being added to the database by mousing over the title text in the results frame; that'll show you the last 20 links added.

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